Languages spoken in Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO

In October 2015, the U.S. Census Bureau released the "2009-2013 American Community Survey" which provides information on "languages spoken at home" and "ability to speak English for the Population 5 Years and Over" for the United States as a whole, states including Puerto Rico and Washington D.C., selected counties, and selected cities and urban areas. The following provides aggregated survey information on languages spoken in Denver-Aurora-Lakewood [CO]

Table showing languages spoken in Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO

Population 5 years and over
Speak only English at home
Speak a language other than English at home
OTHER INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES

French (incl. Patois, Cajun)

French Creole

Italian

Portuguese (incl. Portuguese Creole)

German (incl. Luxembourgian)

Yiddish

Other West Germanic languages

Scandinavian languages

Greek

Russian

Polish

Serbo-Croatian languages

Other Slavic languages

Other Indic languages

Other Indo-European languages

ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLAND LANGUAGES

Chinese (incl. Cantonese, Mandarin, other Chinese languages)

Other Asian languages

Tagalog

Other Pacific Island languages

ALL OTHER LANGUAGES

Navajo

Other Native North American languages

Other and unspecified languages

BY STATE
BY COUNTY
BY CITY

Language	Number of speakers	Margin of Error	Speak English less than "Very Well"	Margin of Error
African	65	58	(D)	(D)
Afrikaans	420	189	30	36
Albanian	175	143	55	69
American Indian	30	29	(B)	-
Amharic	8,010	1,065	3,925	689
Apache	65	53	(D)	(D)
Azerbaijani	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Bantu	370	165	100	62
Basque	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Bengali	1,260	420	335	123
Berber	30	29	20	20
Bielorussian	25	22	(D)	(D)
Bisayan	70	73	40	68
Blackfoot	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Bulgarian	590	220	300	188
Burmese	620	350	550	304
Cajun	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Cantonese	1,365	449	650	241
Catalonian	85	101	70	82
Chadic	35	41	(B)	-
Chamorro	25	25	(D)	(D)
Cherokee	30	31	(B)	-
Cheyenne	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Chinese	9,045	976	4,850	657
Choctaw	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Cree	125	113	95	102
Croatian	280	123	90	64
Cushite	1,955	557	1,125	391
Czech	430	167	145	70
Dakota	115	75	(D)	(D)
Danish	225	104	30	30
Delaware	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Dutch	800	192	60	40
Estonian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Finnish	135	71	75	60
Formosan	340	140	110	87
Fox	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
French	8,900	864	1,690	401
Fulani	155	124	30	32
German	11,115	864	1,265	206
Hawaiian	105	97	10	18
Icelandic	25	33	(B)	-
Ilocano	135	101	75	73
India nec3	500	261	60	41
Indonesian	1,135	372	535	189
Irish Gaelic	235	151	(B)	-
Jamaican Creole	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Javanese	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Kannada	270	143	25	37
Karen	610	394	505	342
Kazakh	30	36	(B)	-
Krio	85	86	(B)	-
Kru, Ibo, Yoruba	3,355	789	1,125	347
Kurdish	120	118	50	64
Latvian	45	32	(D)	(D)
Lithuanian	335	183	70	63
Macedonian	25	30	(B)	-
Malay	95	80	(D)	(D)
Malayalam	820	315	205	121
Mandarin	1,340	316	600	196
Mande	185	117	140	94
Maori	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Marathi	275	221	155	201
Marshallese	50	142	30	91
Mongolian	700	337	360	196
Nepali	2,390	628	1,425	508
Nilotic	95	120	70	114
Norwegian	435	183	25	34
Oriya	55	55	(B)	-
Pakistan nec3	95	139	55	99
Palau	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Pampangan	120	101	85	98
Panjabi	880	438	180	129
Papia Mentae	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Pashto	405	267	125	103
Patois	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Pennsylvania Dutch	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Pidgin	40	40	(B)	-
Polynesian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Portuguese	1,815	423	365	161
Romanian	800	203	200	102
Romany	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Samoan	80	75	(B)	-
Scottic Gaelic	70	86	(D)	(D)
Sebuano	100	125	(D)	(D)
Serbian	295	143	180	94
Serbocroatian	1,065	320	410	150
Sindhi	250	169	(B)	-
Sinhalese	55	45	(D)	(D)
Slovak	425	192	(D)	(D)
Slovene	45	44	(D)	(D)
Sonoran	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Spanish	323,775	4,789	138,945	3,267
Sudanic	120	172	(D)	(D)
Sundanese	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Swahili	765	302	335	212
Swedish	805	249	35	34
Syriac	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Tamil	1,305	455	110	81
Telugu	1,595	475	390	177
Tibetan	105	97	(D)	(D)
Tlingit	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Tongan	100	103	(D)	(D)
Trukese	115	122	45	82
Turkish	915	333	520	300
Ukrainian	1,025	341	470	204
Uncodable	180	154	(B)	-
Ute	110	95	(B)	-
Welsh	35	35	(D)	(D)
African languages	15,143	1,486	6,967	993
Arabic	7,148	985	3,087	622
Armenian	388	179	144	118
Chinese (incl Cantonese, Mandarin, other Chinese languages4)	12,092	1,236	6,211	768
French (incl Patois, Cajun)	8,969	876	1,689	401
French Creole	263	161	40	44
German (incl Luxembourgian)	11,113	864	1,266	206
Greek	1,515	359	374	181
Gujarati	605	223	139	90
Hebrew	1,024	317	146	92
Hindi	3,103	516	450	194
Hmong	2,458	603	840	279
Hungarian	700	208	137	96
Italian	2,980	493	411	131
Japanese	3,380	527	882	198
Korean	9,605	1,014	5,226	615
Laotian	2,049	706	897	307
Mon-Khmer, Cambodian	1,939	547	867	347
Navajo	1,014	387	177	116
Other and unspecified languages	409	179	107	80
Other Asian languages	6,994	943	2,728	616
Other Indic languages	5,779	878	2,240	591
Other Indo-European languages	2,483	428	665	207
Other Native North American languages	548	199	149	112
Other Pacific Island languages	2,225	520	930	277
Other Slavic languages	2,570	554	981	346
Other West Germanic languages	1,242	276	90	55
Persian	3,223	670	993	276
Polish	3,673	495	852	280
Population 5 years and over	2,422,236	205	198,448	4,061
Portuguese (incl Portuguese Creole)	1,824	423	367	161
Russian	11,682	1,398	5,393	746
Scandinavian languages	1,492	336	91	56
Serbo-Croatian languages	1,641	369	685	185
Tagalog	3,913	640	1,107	360
Thai	1,374	317	822	246
Urdu	1,437	497	441	250
Vietnamese	16,693	1,534	10,912	1,050
Yiddish	92	58	(B)	-
ALL OTHER LANGUAGES	25,986	2,126	10,770	1,225
ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLAND LANGUAGES	62,722	1,549	31,422	1,239
OTHER INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES	66,074	2,608	17,311	1,256
SPANISH AND SPANISH CREOLE	323,774	4,789	138,945	3,267
Speak a language other than English at home	478,556	5,955	198,448	4,061
Speak only English at home	1,943,680	5,933	(X)	(X)

Notes

Number of speakers and Speak English less than "Very Well": Detailed-language estimates are rounded to the nearest multiple of five. Aggregate estimates ("language category" and "language sub-category" entries) are unrounded and appear in table B16001. Detailed-language estimates may not sum to aggregate estimates because of rounding.
Margin of Error and Margin of Error: Data are based on a sample and are subject to sampling variability. The degree of uncertainty for an estimate arising from sampling variability is represented through the use of a margin of error. The value shown here is the 90 percent margin of error. The margin of error can be interpreted roughly as providing a 90 percent probability that the interval defined by the estimate minus the margin of error and the estimate plus the margin of error (the lower and upper confidence bounds) contains the true value. In addition to sampling variability, the ACS estimates are subject to nonsampling error (for a discussion of nonsampling variability, see Accuracy of the Data. The effect of nonsampling error is not represented in these tables.
(D): Data withheld to avoid disclosure.
(B): Either no sample observations or too few sample observations were available to compute an estimate.
(X): Question does not apply.
-: Either no sample observations or too few sample observations were available to compute a standard error and thus the margin of error. A statistical test is not appropriate.
3 N.E.C. stands for not elsewhere classified. These are languages where respondents indicated they spoke either Indian or Pakistan. For Indian, it cannot be determined if the respondent spoke a native American language or spoke a language from India. For Pakistan, respondents wrote in Pakistan but it cannot be determined which one of the languages spoken in Pakistan is actually being spoken. To distinguish these languages, n.e.c. is used to indicated they are not classified in any other language code.
This category includes literal write-ins of Chinese as well as Hakka, Kan, Hsiang, Cantonese, Mandarin, Fuchow, Formosan, and Wu.